An eyewitness viewing of the LifeBot DREAMS System working and an interview with those who used it for seven years on Liberty County EMS. By Dan White on ems1.com: In years to come, telemedicine systems like DREAMS™ will protect first responders by documenting what they did and under exactly what kind of circumstances. A combination […]
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by Laura Landro at the Wall Street Journal A new push is under way to improve the care people get after they call 911, when minutes can make the difference between life and death. The inside of the ambulance is changing as it is being stocked with new techniques and devices to improve trauma victims’ […]
In an extraordinary development, Fierce Healthcare is reporting numerous articles where reimbursement is being cut off to hospitals for Non-Emergency visits to their Emergency Departments. Now the primary solution lies in determining if calls are true emergencies (emergent) or non-emergencies (non-emergent) and qualifying those calls. The best way to do that in a tested and […]
The Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) released a Report to Congress that commented about the DREAMS™ EMS Emergency Ambulance Telemedicine System pursuant to the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act. The Joint Advisory Committee on Communications Capabilities of Emergency Medical and Public Health Care Facilities (Joint Advisory Committee) was established by the Chairman of the Federal […]
EMS system to shift low-priority calls – Patients will talk with nurse, may avoid ambulance, ER Hoping to ease overcrowded emergency rooms and trim ambulance runs, Louisville Metro EMS is launching a program to screen low-priority 911 calls and divert some patients from hospitals to more appropriate care. Starting Monday, dispatchers will turn a small […]